Dependence of Cluster Size on Shower Particle Multiplicity

Abstract

Characteristics of clusters and the dependence of their size on the multiplicity of charged shower particles are investigated by analysing the experimental data involving 50 GeV negative pion and 400 GeV proton interactions with emulsion nuclei. The results reveal that the maximum number of particles constituting a cluster is four for the disintegrations with \(n_{s}{\geqslant}10\), where n s is the number of charged particles having \(\beta{\geqslant}0.7\), whilst this number is observed to be three for the events having n s <10. The findings also suggest that cluster size is independent of the nature and energy of the impinging hadron.